Info from $ urpmq -i nagios
Name : nagios Version : 3.2.3 Release : 2.1.mga1 Group : Networking/Other Size : 943555 Architecture: x86_64 Source RPM : nagios-3.2.3-2.1.mga1.src.rpm URL : http://www.nagios.org/ Summary : Host/service/network monitoring program Description : Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to run under Linux (and some other *NIX variants) as a background process, intermittently running checks on various services that you specify. The actual service checks are performed by separate "plugin" programs which return the status of the checks to Nagios. This package provide core programs for nagios. The web interface, documentation, and development files are built as separate packages
To install nagios with the web interface, install nagios and nagios-www
TIP: Install apache-mpm-prefork when Mageia Control Center asks for dependencies. Do not install apache-mpm-itk, it just doesnt work right now.
The web interface can be found at localhost/nagios
Many options require authentication, this can be disabled in /etc/nagios/cgi.cfg by changing the line use_authentication=1 to use_authentication=0
Once you've done so then use # service nagios start to start the monitoring service
For testing just ensure you can view correct looking information on all the tabs and create basic graphs in the Trends section. The graphs will be empty unless it has been monitoring for a few days but just check it can create them.
Uninstall with:
- # service nagios stop
- # urpme -a nagios
- # userdel nagios
- # groupdel nagios
Services always tend to leave their user and group behind when removed.
